Tabiona, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Tabiona, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Tabiona lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Tabiona — the short answer
Tabiona, Utah: USDA zone 5b, about 149 days between hard freezes, across 77 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~149
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 77 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 5b is Tabiona's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Tabiona's 149-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Tabiona
Each reading below is measured for Tabiona itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTabiona runs about 149 days between hard freezes — a short growing season.
Long-maturing crops like melons, sweet potatoes, and winter squash can run out of runway before the first hard freeze, ripening late or not at all.
Lead with fast-maturing varieties, and stretch the season on both ends with cold frames, low tunnels, or a greenhouse.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredTabiona sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Tabiona is in
Tabiona sits in the Colorado Plateaus — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Tabiona's own centroid rather than borrowed from Duchesne County.
What Grows in Tabiona
Every plant below cleared Tabiona's own zone 5b and its 149-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Tabiona?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 10; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 8 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 4 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a season this compact, fast finishers and cold-hardy greens do the late work, and garlic tucked in before the freeze repays you next summer.
What's on the federal record near Tabiona
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Tabiona. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- TABIONA SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- M.G. PACE- RIVERSIDE MERCUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- SAGEBRUSH INNUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- UDOT STA. 3433Underground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- CHEVRON HANNA PUMP STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- THE HANNA STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- U(C- 1- 8) 4bdd- 1Nitrate · 6.5 mi
- US FOREST SERVICE STOCKMORE RANGER STSuperfund · 9.6 mi
- STOCKMORE GUARD STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.8 mi
Measured from Tabiona's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Tabiona.
Total Sites
10
within ~10 miles of Tabiona
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Tabiona
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •A Superfund listing means federally documented contamination. Test soil and water before planting edibles nearby.
Check your specific parcel in Tabiona
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Tabiona average
Your land is one point inside Tabiona
Everything above resolves to Tabiona as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 77 acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Tabiona Average
Tabiona Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Tabiona
- ●One soil character for all of Tabiona
- ●Frost dates read at Tabiona's scale: May 8 to Oct 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Tabiona's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Tabiona
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Tabiona, Utah — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Tabiona averages can't show:
We read public map data around Tabiona — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Tabiona average
How we know this about Tabiona
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Tabiona’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Tabiona
When does frost risk typically end in Tabiona?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Tabiona typically lands around May 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about May 29.
When is the first frost in Tabiona?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Tabiona typically arrives around Oct 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 20, so the watching starts about Sep 4 — about 149 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Tabiona?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Tabiona sees about 149 frost-free days — roughly May 8 through Oct 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 29 to Sep 20, about 114 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Tabiona?
The federal record around Tabiona is a meaningful one — 10 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (7), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do gardeners stretch the season in Tabiona?
With about 149 frost-free days between hard freezes, Tabiona rewards the classic extension moves: floating row cover buys roughly two to four extra weeks at each shoulder — on this season that is a working window nearer 177 to 205 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 8 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Tabiona's scale — its 5b band and its 149-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Tabiona's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Tabiona’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Tabiona's own scale — its own ~149-day season between 28°F freezes, the 77 acres it covers and 10 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Tabiona's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Tabiona's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 8 and Oct 4 and the ~149-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 10 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Tabiona, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Tabiona's boundary and the 77 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~149-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Tabiona's own centroid, the Colorado PlateausUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Tabiona's 77 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Duchesne County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Duchesne County
- The growing challenges every Utah grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Utah
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Duchesne County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Tabiona's 77 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Tabiona you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 77 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Tabiona-wide figureread your own land →
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